i realize there is rng involved but its getting a bit ridiculous...
i have a rank 9 weapon smith and am dismantling equipment...and i have 15% chance to get broken parts... and i continually get parts instead of upgrade
on rank 8 it was usually around 30% to get broken parts and as far as i could see the rate for upgrades was about 1 in 10 at best

anyone else experiencing something like that? is the rng off somehow?

PS: im using the directors cut


PPS: just for the sake of it i just ran a series of about 20 tests on a weapon i had a 20% chance for parts... just over half of the results were broken parts
its still too low to be statistically significant...but thats pretty far off...

I admit that, so far, I never got anything else than parts, even though their chances were around 50% each time. So indeed, there might be a discrepancy between displayed chances and actual ones. I don't know.

(Haven't perceived it as an issue, though, as weapon parts are my main currency. Am biased to notice statistical hiccups more clearly when they feel like bad luck...)

Yes, it's bugged all the way.

Cariied out similar tests with the same results.

Yeah there's something definitely off with Weaponsmithing, with both breaking-down weaponry and removing parts.

I don't mind that I get parts more often, especially in the beginning of the game. But they should change the displayed percentages to reflect the changes to the skill if it was intentional.

I started a new playthrough of the Director's Cut. This time I'm playing on ranger difficulty and experiencing very different results with weaponsmithing.

During my first playthrough, early in the game, 9 of 10 times I'd get weapon parts, which was my biggest income. It wasn't until reaching California and reaching a higher skill that I got more mods.

So far during my second playthrough, it's the other way around. I kept getting sturdy mags instead of parts and now as a result I hardly have any scrap. However, after reaching the Rail Nomad Camp and getting Makarovs from pretty much every junkie foe in the area, I suddenly start getting parts again with only the occasional mod. This is without adding any points to my skill.


I guess it could have something to do with the higher difficulty setting, but the odds that I've been presented with when stripping for parts haven't matched the outcome. I can't have been that lucky/unlucky.

Also find it odd that in everyone in RNC suddenly drop their weapons when they're otherwise so scarce. I guess they must've forgotten to change it for DC in this particular area.

Yes - it really hard to get anything besides weapon parts, even with 10 on WS.